it was a little rough out there today so we did a spot of squidding. Got some big ones.  

 Do you think that referees should be able to be taken to a tribuneral in the case of bad decisions? Friday night and the ref let a trip incident go that cost the dragons a try. A few plays on and a foward pass was let go which resulted in the dogs scoring. With 3 points being the difference in the final score, I feel cheated. Can't help but think how the loosing team feels. I think the ref should at least be put in front of a governing body for referees and repremanded.

Had a cracker day out of Two Rocks on Thursday as did a few others from all reports. Headed out to some new ground we found late in the day on our last trip out but didnt really get a chance to fish properly and it was on from the first drop. Jigs were down for less than 5 miuntes and a couple tuna were already causing tangle problems. Im thinking they're Big Eye but not 100% convinced?? Got more pics if anyone can confirm. Ended up being a heap of good ground with plenty of fish and we could do big long drifts and picked up the Tuna, Dhus, Blackarse, a Baldy, 2 big Cuttlefish and some solid Pinkys, one of which was a PB 850mm and the boat scales said 7.3kg. Stopped at a mark in 30m on the way in and found a couple of nice 10kg+ dhus in the shallow stuff which were released easily. One of the best Metro days I can remember weather wise and the fish were on the chew all day.

 A fairly average week with not a lot of fish coming on board. Doing the miles and seeing the fish but encouraging them to bite has been another story. Some groups up here seem to be doing well but we are yet to get into the groove !

We have managed to troll up a couple of nice mackies that made it past the Sharks and we have even managed to put a half dozen Ruby's in the esky. The Reds seem to be a little scarce with only 2 size coming on board but lots of babies or just sized which we are releasing. We have managed a couple of really nice Rankins and some other odds and sods including a good size Tang Snapper, which Bernie from Mahi Mahi rates as one of the best eating fish in the sea. We are it that night and would agree, it ate exceedingly well !

Seen some interesting sights, lots and lots of whales, breaching quite close to us, slapping their tails and fins, magnificent but a little unnerving. We were motoring along with a free swimming Sailfish who was sunning himself on the surface with his sail up. Have also seen some free jumping sails and a nice Marlin following up a line caught fish.

Weather has been Ok and we have managed to get out into the hundreds which is where we picked up the Rubies and some Goldband.

Weather is turning feral tomorrow so looks like a couple of days on the beach. Hopefully it will blow over quickly and we can get back into it.

I will try and post a couple of pics from my phone. if it doesn't work it will have to be later.

Still a few more down there for next time.

 Good day out.. stayed in close to look for new ground.

Having not been able to make the most of the awesome weather earlier in the week, myself (Marc/Oceanside staff) and good mates Miles (FW Milsey) and Nick decided we couldn't let this rare stint of good winter weather pass by without having a solid session, so last night we committed to an evening Dhu bash.

After knocking off at 5.30pm we prepped my new tub for her first proper offshore mission. We were on the water by 6.30pm and steamed out to the 60m mark Rottenest way. The night started off a bit quiet, Miles and myself were throwing around some artificials but unfortunately the night time artificial bite wasn't happening.

With mint conditions yesterday, decided I needed to skive off work at lunch and have a fish. After the guy formerly known as the guy who fishes a lot with Scano (hehe) could not make it, and Baron could not make it, I took Baron's old man Ken Snr. I did a trip with Baron and Ken Snr to the Monties a few years ago that Ken Snr had organised, so a good way to finally pay back a favour.

Was a cracker of an arvo but started slow with fish totally shutdown until Ken got this badboy, officially the biggest Dhu caught on my boat at a measured 103 cm! Kenny Snr is about 70 not out and combined with a dodgy shoulder, this gave him a monumental work-out on his 6000 size reel. Top stuff! Unfortunately baratrauma was pretty bad and there was no releasing this old girl.

Ended with a KG, baldie and 65cm dhu on KG gear in the shallows on the way in.

 Headed out from Mindarie with a solid plan of stopping to pick up a few Skippy and finding ground to anchor for some snapper on sunset.

What else can i say but all went to plan. Skippy in abundance in 15m with a small pollard, oil and mullie burley. Anchored in 20m and got Surecatch's Gold (pilchard shred) going. First snapper to the young bloke, a solid 4Kg and 70+cm. Sun went down and a double hook up for myself and Darren on another couple of solid fish. 

First go at using Photobucket so hope it works.

Merv

 Do baitchaser rigs on bream rods count as light tackle? I'm talking the cheap half dozen No. 10 hooks with a bit of tinsel attached, break them in half to be legal. Dangling off an old bream  rod and even older cheapie threadline with old, old 10lb mono. I use these to catch wrasse for live Dhu bait. Using one in 8 fathoms today north of Kalbarri--mate had a mulie floating down there, I caught a few wrasse then something solid hooks up. This happens a bit, usually results in a bust off or a nw blowie. But I am patient, apply steady pressure and start to make ground. Imagine the hilarity when 73cm of pinkie shows up. I reckon I'd be battling to keep a 30cm bream out of the snags with this outfit. Much laughter and headshaking , and first keeper of the day. Try the shallows for a while, nothing, move out a bit , onto a little patch, and bingo, dhu on a jig. Mate is still dangling baits for nothing worthwhile. Then a smallish sambo on a jig. Move along a bit, drift's almost non-existent, keep a livie down there, goes off, up comes a nice sambo after a hard battle. Mate still has little to show, apart from an undersize dhu and a procession of redthroats. Drop the baitchaser down again later for more bait, another solid hookup, this time a good surf parrot. With a wrasse under it.  I don't think I've ever had one on a line before, certainly speared a few.

When the missus and I left home on Sunday the temp gauge in the car indicated 0 degrees.  At least it warmed up to 4 degrees by the time we launched at Woodies at 6.30.  Our first target area was between the islands and after one drift we ended up with an undersized Dhufish.  There were a couple of unpredictable swells popping up all over the place so we headed off to the 20m mark in the Sepia Depression to catch some whiting.  After tiring from this species we headed off to the western side of FFB and anchored in about 20m. Soon after burleying we were plagued by skippy and even managed a couple of bonito. We never caught anything of note, but did get smashed on three occasions.  We ended up with eight species which included dhufish, snapper, whiting, goatfish, bonito, skippy, flathead and sambo. Good fun for a cold winter day.

Link to YouTube video below

https://youtu.be/RcuRMl6EpJQ

 headed out today off bunno today.The old man cleaned up with a dhuie 980mm and a 750mm queenie.

As per my recent Shore Catch post, we headed out in good conditions this afternoon.  Got away from Hillarys not long after 3pm.  This trip was about taking a long term work mate of Dean’s to catch a few fish.  Dominic has a boat but no real luck with the fish so it was a bit of a guiding and advice trip.

The first ground we chose had reasonable sounding.  The 20kg+ bucket of mixed shred came out with us but it was a bit of an “epic fail” as it was too heavy without support and broke up.  No worries, the wind conditions were great and the current was low so over the side it goes down onto our spot in batches for 15-20 minutes.  The sounder shots were awesome and the one below is a “frenzy” to get to the shred.

It was on again.  Constant bite from a whole range of species.  The highlight for me was Dominic landing his first nice pinkie, we measured it at about 525mm and in an instant we chucked it back to swim away.  The look on his face and the comments as he watched it go were priceless.  Too small as they shrink in the esky. 

Happily, within the next 10 minutes he hooked up to another pinkie and this one was a bit bigger.  We had given Dom a good combo to use, after one failed drop with his, and the fight was excellent viewing.  Not a huge pinkie but there is certainly a happy look here.

Lots of sambos – my arms are sore as I type this.  It was fun hooking a skippy, winding it into the “zone” and getting the “upgrade”.  We did get “shredded” by some very large models with this technique though.

Most fish were released but we kept the best eating ones. 

Back in before 7pm in what was another epic Perth Metro NoR dash.  We are so lucky to have this fishery on our doorstep.

 With the forecast looking suitable for Super Deep yesterday and good mate Shaun (FW members Shabba) was keen to brain some fish for the family the plan was made!

Shaun has caught some awesome super deep species with me but not greybanded cod (GB). So armed with some custom shop rigs, Esca lights, Lundz squid and beers .... we were off!

I went to an old spot I hadn't fished for a while and located GB on the Furuno sounder. Shaun dropped first and hooked up to a small fish and I said leave it down and hopefully a bigger GB will jump on!

With another trip to Coral bay coming up in the next couple of weeks – getting a little excited with anticipation. It usually starts a couple of weeks out with the thoughts of “what’s the biggest red going to be”, “can’t wait to get stuck into the goldbands”, “hope we can find some rubies”, and probably more than anything, “hope the wind stays the f*ck away!”

Anyway, whilst thinking of what’s ahead, noticed we didn’t lodge a report on what had past – latest trip to CB from April this year.

This trip was a little different from the usual boys trip as we enlisted a couple of young guns (our lads) for their first (of hopefully many) CB fishing trip.

Trip started with a drive through the night on the Thursday, to arrive in CB around 8am on the Friday morning. Check into the backpackers for a day, grab a pie for breakfast, and then hit the water.

We were blessed with the weather over the first few days, but this would turn later in the trip.

Anyway, day 1 headed out south passage to a likely lump and the sounder lit up! This was a spot that regularly produces and it was looking the goods again. Set the young lads up on the first drop but the fish just weren’t interested.
Everywhere we went, the sounder showed plenty of activity, but they just weren’t interested in in biting. We ended up with a couple for dinner and returned back to base to recover from the previous nights drive. Here is an extract from my mates lads electronic diary – although we didn’t clean up on the fish, this is priceless:

“Day one we went fishing and I caught two fish my friend Zak caught no fish my bapou caught a red emperor my dad caught three fish and my friend got seasick but didn't vomit.then we went home and saw some snappers at the beach andone bit my friends finger and they swam through our legs and we feed the fish's and then we went to the pub and watched footy port Adelaide vs Essendon port Adelaide won by a lot then we went home and went to sleep.
I'd rate it 9/10 for that day”

Day 2 was much of the same and with the weather looking good, we headed north and out to some deeper water in search of some goldband. It was similar to day one in that the sounder was promising but the fish just weren’t hungry (this seemed to be common with everyone fishing at the time). First drop we copped a few decent bites but then it shut down all together. We tried for a while but then conceded and came in to some shallower ground. We got onto a couple of fish and the young lads hooked up so there were smiles and high fives all round. Was awesome to see the new recruits pull in some nice reds..

Day 3 and the weather was one – and luckily so were the fish (we have been telling our boys what great fishermen we are for years and those tales were starting to look a little tall after a couple of days with limited fish!).
Rods were buckled over for the best part of the morning with the boys clearly out-fishing the men on the Reds! High fives and smiles again and three days in a row on the boat and we couldn’t be prouder of the boys. The next couple of days were not looking good weather wise which I think was a blessing as it let us all recover a little and show the boys some more of the Bay.

Day4 – lay day! And a couple of mates turn up

Day 5 – Head out south again for a relatively quiet day on the bait. Managed to wrestle up a few more reds and rankins and Paul on the Jigs cleaned up on an assorted of Tuna, rankins, cobia etc – he was getting smashed every drop (cant load these fish photos tho as they are bitmap - but you get the idea)

Day 6 – one boat headed out North again in search of some deeper species whilst the youn guns explored a bit more of the bay.. Turned out a pretty good day all round snorkelling all through the bay and some big rosies, goldbands and pinkies hitting the deck. (same problem again with most of the photos from the boat - ah well)

Day 7 – weather had come up again so it was an early departure back to Perth.

All round a great trip and awesome to get the boys into some great fish.

Up there again in just over two weeks so back to the wait in anticipation of what’s to come……..

cheers

Brett

Good day out on the demersal Sunday, teaming up with Bodie for a 2 boat Metro demersal sortie.

Conditions were a bit messy but quite fishable.

Both boats ended up with a similar haul, this was ours, a great feed of the 4 best demersal fish in Metro waters for me, Langa and TimVB on my boat.

 Few photos from recent trip to coral bay we got lucky with the weather early in the trip as usual didn't take enough photos to busy fishing !! Good red rankin and trout came from only 22m on the pick very rough day

Went with the mrs last weekend and had a coffee at the new café there on Alkimos beach, ive never been there before and presume the structure sticking up out of the water in front of the cafe a couple of hundred metres out is all that's left of the wreck?. Anyway the beach just to the left of the lookout looked like it could be worth a try for tailor or mulla's has anybody had any luck there or is it better to walk either north or south of that area along the beach to any better spots? cheers for any info!

 Headed off on a solo mission early Tuesday morning hunting some snapper got into a few nothing huge but still good fun

Saw lots of boats on trailers going to the northern marinas as I was heading south on Marmion early this morning and just wondering if any fishwreckers had any luck?, weather looked awesome out there! cheers Dave

Nice little family camping trip north with the missus, kids, camper trailer and tinnie on top with 5 other families. Thought we would head north to get away from the cold.....it followed us.....but still had a great time.

Did a bit of fishing both boat and land, got fish every time, plenty enough to keep everyone stocked with fresh pinkie all week. Happy days.

 Quick report from me, not a whole lot to brag about on our recent trip up with the wind blowing relentlessly limiting us getting the kayaks out and the fish just not biting landbased despite hours upon hours flinging casts out with almost every lure in my tackle box getting a good run.

Stand out lure was without a doubt Big John's white bucktail in 3/4 and 1oz sizes. 

Managed to troll up a couple small rankins in the yak in just a couple metres of water not far from shore (one of them came in a double hookup with a little school mack, can't complain about that). 

Charlie courts were about in plague proportions as were small bluebone but nothing of any size. 

Got taught a few hard lessons using my 10lb outfit as my main one for the yak - might have to put another order in for some more of BJ's bucktails after getting stitched up 5 or 6 times in a session by what I suspect were decent spangoes and also losing a few jigs to bite-offs. Will probably step my main outfit up to 15 or 20lb for the next trip.

I did manage to find a couple little queenies around 70cm in the marina on plastics which were great fun on the light gear. 

Did a quick weekend trip to DHI last month.

Left Perth Thursday after work, did a all nighter and arrived DHI Friday morning 8 am.

Fish everywhere as we all know but they where shut completely. We did hook up odd fish and lost it to taxman.

So after a long drive and fishing 3 quarters of the day with very few fish we decided to head back to the camp for a few beers and swim in the bay (Turtle Bay).

Saturday morning - started trolling for pelagics and with in a couple of hours we landed 9 mackerel and couple of tuna.

Released the Tuna and couple of mackerel as they where literally filling our eskies.

Then decided to head to 60's & 70's for Rankins and Reds but poor results. Mate pulled one 60cm Rankin and the only red I caught for the trip was just under 50cm. Released to grow bigger for our next trip.

Came back to the 40's and found a small school of honeycombe cod. They where not big but just sized. we landed 4 and they went off bite too. Man tell you what they are top table fish.

So finally decide to come back into the shallows to fish for snapper before we leave and bang on.

Found a school in 16 meters, between me and other 2 mates on board landed 12 fish in 5 drifts before taxman came and put a stop to the crazy session.

Left DHI just after 2 pm and arrived into Perth early hours Sunday.

Now cant wait to go back to get amongst the reds and rankin spots we found during this trip.

 Today I would like to share some of my fishing catch reports I guided with my China clients in Thailand.

 

 Today I would like to share some of my fishing catch reports I guided with my China clients in Thailand.

 

Was fortunate today to head out and fish south of Broome in pretty good conditions. Fished mile off shore in racing tides with myself playing the wingman keeping the numerous 9kg plus Golden Trevally at bay while the skipper got stuck into the the Blue bone. Highlight of the day were the skipper pulling up a 30/40 kg cod which swam down strong (on an Abu 7000)and myself finally getting a good Bluebone which went 580, plenty of little boats out today and we faired pretty well at the bench, heading North to the Gibb next week so all in all a pretty happy camper.

 2 days of fishing adventure !!!2 days of awesome fishing with me in Thailand.

another nice metro , went 72 cm .. 

 The family Notopteridae contains ten species of osteoglossiform (bony-tongued) fishes, commonly known as featherbacks and knifefishes. These fishes live in freshwater or brackish environments in Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.